Poetry

Singapore is a country of many invented, transplanted, or self-made myths and fables, but one looms above them all. 1969 marks the famous declarati...

A bilingual anthology of poems from the sixth century to the present, Arabic Poems is a one-of-a-kind showcase of a fascinating literary tradition....

In this remarkable, intensely moving, first collection, Fiona Benson shows her fascination with human experience. The poems move on archaeological ...

edited by Daniel Mendelsohn The Alexandrian Greek poet Constantine Cavafy (1863-1933) is a towering figure of twentieth-century literature. No mode...

You know a language well if it does things you don’t have control over. Bring me the words without meanings, words all meanings have abandoned, sen...

Perhaps (she wrote), you’re lucky you can hate my rhymes and never be haunted by the ghosts that compel me to write them – those figures of history...

Afraid of poetry? Unable to make sense of a poem, let alone enjoy it? Having trouble discussing the web of meanings within a poem or, worse, writin...

Winner of the Singapore Literature Prize 2016 “This collection of poetry by interdisciplinary artist Desmond Kon is an invitation to ‘jump into the...

The poems in this collection are best read with a glass of single malt but they work equally well in a quiet place at twilight. Test on a small are...

A new collection of songs, sonnets and lyric poems that focus on love in the widest sense, encompassing relationships of all kinds. This volume inc...

Mickey Finn's Air, Gerald Dawe's eighth collection of poems, revels in how memory plays tricks with the passing of time as traces of the past are r...

Ruins fascinate. They invite us into a world of disunities, fragments, memory, time. They beckon us to imagine the invisible and whole. Dinah Roma’...

Warning: in 2006 the Singapore government banned the reading of Koh’s poem “Come on, straight boy, and make gay love with me.” That poem is now ava...

Peony comprises 50 poems in four sections. The title poem, ‘Only A Peony’, pays tribute to the tradition of the peony poem in Chinese literature. T...

This selection of poems from across the ages brings to life a staggering array of zombies, ghosts, vampires, and devils. Our culture's current obse...

This one-of-a-kind collection of poems about the American South ranges over four centuries of its dramatic history. The arc of poetry of the South,...

Red Pulse II is a rich chronicle illuminating the growth of twenty-two young Singapore poets, who, as a community, write to shape and order private...

The sequel to The Law of Second Marriages, the best-selling and critically acclaimed poetry book by Christine. With "terrifying sparseness and inte...

Best whispered aloud to a backdrop of Bon Iver or the strains of Scriabin’s piano sonatas, The Confusion of Happiness questions the promises of lov...

If I had to do it all over again, I would lie to my father. I think he wanted me to lie to him too, but I hadn’t quite perfected the art of lying y...

Translated by Anthony Briggs The Queen of Spades (Pikovaya dama), originally published in Russian in 1834, is one of the most famous tales in Russi...